It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part!

The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.